[ovirt-devel] el6 future in ovirt-3.6

[Sahina Bose]

On 03/16/2015 03:28 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> Current master branch of vdsm (destined for our 3.6 release) uses el7 as
> its main platform. New features are expected to be available only on el7
> (and modern Fedoras) but not on el6.
>
> On el6, vdsm still builds, runs, and exports clusterLevel <= 3.5, with
> no feature loss relative to 3.5. This has been done per gluster request.
>
> However, maintaining this furhter as high costs: we keep testing el6, we
> need to make sure nothing breaks there, and there's a lot of legacy code
> that we could start deleting.
>
> Sahina, would you explain (again... sorry for not recalling the details)
> why ovirt-3.6's vdsm should keep running on el6? I'd like to see if
> there's a nother means to solve the underlying gluster issue.

This was only because downstream gluster + vdsm would continue to be 
supported on RHEL 6.

>
> Regards,
> Dan.